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KCE reports vol. 40 APPENDICES Physiotherapy 55
B. CHECKLIST FOR LITTERATURE REVIEW ON FUNCTIONAL
EVALUATION
A systematic checklist was adopted to review each study on functional assessment. The checklist was
specifically designed to assess papers presenting psychometric qualities of functional tests in the field of
physiotherapy, i.e. the majority of the selected studies. The other studies addressed clinical, methodological or
organisational issues, and were not evaluated according to the checklist. The checklist is described hereunder.
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Reference of the study.
- Reader.
- Study type: test (study presenting psychometric qualities of functional tests), commentary (study addressing
clinical issues in the field of physiotherapy), satisfaction (study addressing patient satisfaction with
physiotherapy) or economic (study addressing physiotherapy financing issues).
- Full name of the test.
- Abbreviated name of the test.
- Diagnosis of the patients studied.
- Sub-diagnosis (when applicable).
- The sample size of the study.
- The domain of the ICF addressed by the test items: body structure, body function, activities, participation or
environmental factors).
TEST ADMINISTRATION
- The type of administration used for the test: clinical test, self-, proxy- or interviewer-completed
questionnaire or telephone or semi-structured interview.
- Clinical utility summarized in one sentence.
- The time required to score the test in a routine clinical practice (when available).
- The evaluator actually scoring the test: patient, therapist or proxy.
- Brief description of the training required to administer the test and whether training material is available
(when available).
- Brief description of the equipment required to administer the test (when available).
PSYCHOMETRIC QUALITIES
- The type of scoring of the test: descriptive (qualitative appraisal rather than scoring), classification, profile
score or total score.
- Scaling level of the test score: nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio.
- Either unidimensional or multidimensional scoring of the test.
- Evidence of content validity.
- Evidence of concurrent validity.
- Evidence of construct validity.
- Evidence of internal consistency.
- Evidence of reproducibility test-retest.
- Evidence of reproducibility inter rater.